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The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script

The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script

A master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element―the individual scene.

2019

Stories

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emoshitstorm

The Law of Repulsion: A Contrary Approach to Self-Help

“Not my monkeys” and other strategic disengagement aphorisms

May 24

The Law of Repulsion: A Contrary Approach to Self-Help

May 24

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Screenwriting & Storytelling

How to Surprise Your Audience With Nothing

Making something out of nothing

4d ago

Ripped script page with scene from Crazy, Stupid, Love which is quoted later.

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Screenwriting & Storytelling

An Eclectic Screenwriting Primer—Jim’s Storytelling Stories

A compilation with Springsteen, Kevin Costner and Meyers-Briggs

5d ago

An Eclectic Screenwriting Primer—Jim’s Storytelling Stories

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MuddyUm

I Watched My Wife Cheat on Me — I Liked It

He helped her flow in ways I couldn’t

Mar 16

No faces, but two men and a woman with olf books on a table between them — looks like small writer’s group.

Mar 16

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Funny, Inc.

What I Wish I Had Said to the Woman with the Story about the Unwanted Ugly Deaf Kid Eaten by…

“Was it Stephen King Mad Libs Day, and I missed the memo?”

May 16

What I Wish I Had Said to the Woman with the Story about the Unwanted Ugly Deaf Kid Eaten by…

May 16

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Screenwriting & Storytelling

How to Build on Your Descriptions for More Efficient Storytelling

Action description is not an island unto itself

5h ago

5 Nesting dolls each smaller than the previous.

5h ago

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Screenwriting & Storytelling

Write for Screenwriting & Storytelling

We want your words — but not about your words

6d ago

6d ago

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Screenwriting & Storytelling

“Unfilmables” Are the Most Detrimental Thing to Your Screenwriting

When your screenplay isn’t even screenwriting

6d ago

Thoughtful man and behind his head is screenwriting action description describing his thoughts.

6d ago

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Frazzled

The Toddler Monologues — Take 2

Jaws, Dirty Harry, On the Waterfront, a Few Good Diapers

May 21

Kid in Darth Vader helmet/mask. Dialogue bubble: I’m your son … Luke.

May 21

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New Writers Welcome

How to Write Satire — My Satire Slump

They sucked until they didn’t — a happy ending

May 20

How to Write Satire — My Satire Slump

May 20

Jim Mercurio

Jim Mercurio

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Screenwriter/Filmmaker—satire (top 50), humor, storytelling, Springsteen. Writer for MuddyUm, Ink & Tears, Frazzled. Publisher Screenwriting & Storytelling.

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